Studenterguiden.dk presents in cooperation with FREE salaried unemployment fund this guide to the unemployment insurance fund as a student and recent graduate. Are you in training, you can at the end of education be included in the unemployment insurance fund on concessional terms. As a recent graduate, you are entitled to benefits 1 month after you finish your education.

Requirements for new graduates:

1. We must receive your application for admission within 14 days after completion of training. 2. You must have completed a vocational training of at least 18 months or 3 biannual semesters or basic vocational training under the Law on initial training. 3. Training should generally be taken in Denmark. You must be resident in Denmark immediately before you started the program and within 2 weeks after completion of training. 4. You must be resident in this country. To be admitted on the basis of an education, we must receive your application for admission within 2 weeks after the training is completed. That is, when all study activity has ceased, all characters are given and the training is passed. The date on the diploma can always be completion of training, if the certificate was issued by study activities ended. If you arrive too late with your application, you have missed a chance to take the unemployment insurance fund based on your education, and you lose the right to unemployment benefits on dimittendvilkår. This means that you must be included under the general rules and thus be a member and gardening for at least one year to qualify for unemployment benefit. It is therefore a good idea if you contact us and apply for admission before connecting your education. Then you are sure to meet the deadline, and we get started your membership immediately by connecting training. You pay of course first contingent of this time. Join online as a newly graduated - click here

Unemployment benefits for recent graduates

It is important that you adhere to 14-day deadline for application. It gives you the right to unemployment benefits one month after completion of training. If you are unemployed and want benefits, you also sign up for job center on the first day when you are unemployed. A fund may not pay per diem for days when you are not enrolled in job center. Your benefits are paid to the special "dimittendsats ", which is 82% of the highest unemployment benefits. Graduate rate in 2009 kr. 595 for full-time insured and kr. 396 for part-time insured. The rate paid for 5 days a week. You can calculate a new rate 7 months after joining the unemployment insurance fund, if you after your training has had at least 3 months / 12 weeks of paid work.

If you have been a member of an unemployment insurance fund during training

If you are already a fund member, at the end of the training choose whether by transfer to us will either maintain the same unemployment insurance rights that you currently have, or if you want to switch over to newly qualified. Do you have job once the training ends, this choice does not really matter, but you are unemployed, or have you had periods of unemployment, contact either your current insurance fund or us, so that together we can find out what best pay off for you.

Transfer of acquired rights:

You can also choose to be transferred with the rights and duties that you have in the current fund. You can not use the newly qualified are following the law. Your benefit rate and possible benefit period depends on the rights you have acquired in your previous fund. You must apply for transfer within 4 weeks after the training is completed. Be moved online as a recent graduate with your existing rights

Transfer of newly qualified:

You can be transferred as graduate if you apply for it within 14 days after you have completed your education. If you have been members of the different unemployment insurance fund for at least one year, you are entitled to unemployment benefits immediately after completion of training. You also have the same rights as other graduates / graduates, including the right to unemployment benefits by 82% of the highest rate from the first available day of unemployment benefits. Do you want to switch over to newly qualified, we must receive your written application to that effect within two weeks from connecting program. Become migrated online as a recent graduate with newly qualified - click here